Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cynthia stood up and walked across to the window , where she stared out across the busy London street . |
| 2 | Sliding her arm from beneath him , Beth got out of bed and , wrapping her robe about her shivering form , went first to the window , where she looked out at the moonlit night . |
| 3 | Sally-Anne 's own preserve was the kitchen , where she ate either at the kitchen table , or , when that was full , at a small card table which was folded up and put away when she had finished . |
| 4 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 5 | Fabia reached Ven 's suite and let herself in , walked across the sitting-room and into her bedroom where she sat down on the edge of the bed , and felt , for the moment , defeated . |
| 6 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 7 | They passed close to her , where she crouched still in the bushes . |
| 8 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 9 | There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house . |
| 10 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 11 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 12 | she said , so she goes up on the step now , goes to this |
| 13 | No sound came from the garden , so she crept along to the gate and squeezed herself under . |
| 14 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 15 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 16 | ‘ See you tomorrow , ’ she called to Sally but could n't think of anything to say to the man , so she ran off after the others . |
| 17 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 18 | There was no arguing with him , and it was very pleasant to have someone caring , so she sat back in the seat without further protest . |
| 19 | Still , there was safety in numbers , even sparse ones , so she skipped smartly across the street , shortening her stride to keep pace with the woman 's slower one . |
| 20 | Instinct told her to find somewhere to lie up , so she turned unsteadily into the shelter of the trees . |
| 21 | His deep , even breathing told her he had fallen asleep again , so she slipped out of the room and left him to it . |
| 22 | The one who was sharing Tony 's bed — and sharing it so enthusiastically that neither of them heard Folly 's approaching footsteps until she walked right into the room . |
| 23 | She remembered nothing more until she woke up in the ambulance . |
| 24 | She was away at Malcolm 's cousin 's from the Sunday till the Wednesday evening and we had n't realized how much noise she makes until she came home on the Wednesday evening . |
| 25 | It was n't until she turned away from the elms that Artemis realized she was not alone . |
| 26 | He kissed her again , testing the quivering softness of her response , until she yielded helplessly to the unhurried persuasion of his mouth , her lips clinging with aching , bitter-sweet desire . |
| 27 | ‘ Supposing she slipped out during the afternoon , perhaps to go home for something she 'd forgotten ? ’ |
| 28 | Whereupon she came out into the open and said she would choose Arts . |
| 29 | Even if she came up with the money , Clive was not about to hand over a bag in the open . |
| 30 | I said , no , but if she came out to the perimeter fence again , that 'd be the time . |